When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921

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“…It becomes necessary to examine and understand changes in work, the characteristics of workers, the roles of technology to control and manage work, how different workplaces are connected in the supply chain, the connections between the waged and unwaged workplaces and the workplace and community, and the demographics of who the workers are. By doing this, we uncover what I call the 'invisible committees' of workers coordinating and struggling together in order to devise new tactics, strategies, and forms of organisation that can expand and circulate these struggles in order to restore the balance of power to the workers (Ovetz 2019). By doing this we identify the weak linkages, or what Jake Wilson and Manny Ness call choke points, in the technical composition where workers can apply the greatest pressure to cause disruption and extract gains (Alimahomed-Wilson and Ness 2018).…”

Book Review: Workers’ Inquiry and Global Class Struggle, by Robert Ovetz

“…accumulation dynamics, and questions how the possibility of self-empowerment may take place in an adverse landscape (also Ovetz 2019). Interestingly, Robert Ovetz (ed.)…”

The Class Strikes Back: Self-Organized Workers' Struggles in the Twenty-First Century. Dario Azzellini, Michael G. Kraft, eds. Brill, NL, 2017. Historical Materialism Book Series 150

“…Although the effort to map class composition was vibrant in the 1970s it has mostly been neglected since then. For more works on class composition, see the journal Zerowork (/1977); Bell and Cleaver (); and Ovetz ().…”